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Dublin / Re: Thormanby Road, Howth
« on: Sunday 18 October 15 19:25 BST (UK) »
Hi Lynn
I was searching recently for information on James O'Brien who lived at Heather Cottage, Upper Cliff Road. I came across your posts on this site about your relationship to him. I would be very grateful if you could help me with information about him. I know he had a brother John who is said to have run a small dairy farm around 1920 at Baker's Lane, also in Howth. I came across mentions of John and James in a biography of Michael Collins, one of the top Irish revolutionary leaders in the 1919-21 War of Independence. He is said to have stayed with John, but most often at Heather Cottage with James, when he was running the underground political and military campaign against the British at the time. As a man from a farming background himself, he befriended the two brothers and they willingly made their houses available as "safe houses". I am currently researching the history of that period in the Howth-Baldoyle area. Can you help me with any further information about John and James?
I was searching recently for information on James O'Brien who lived at Heather Cottage, Upper Cliff Road. I came across your posts on this site about your relationship to him. I would be very grateful if you could help me with information about him. I know he had a brother John who is said to have run a small dairy farm around 1920 at Baker's Lane, also in Howth. I came across mentions of John and James in a biography of Michael Collins, one of the top Irish revolutionary leaders in the 1919-21 War of Independence. He is said to have stayed with John, but most often at Heather Cottage with James, when he was running the underground political and military campaign against the British at the time. As a man from a farming background himself, he befriended the two brothers and they willingly made their houses available as "safe houses". I am currently researching the history of that period in the Howth-Baldoyle area. Can you help me with any further information about John and James?